Combined wire and picket fence



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Patented May 22, 1883 &@

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COMBINED WIRE AND PIGKBT FENCE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

M. HARRISON BROWN AND CHARLES F. HYDE, OF OTTAWA, KANSAS.

COMBINED WIRE AND PlCK ETFENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,877, dated May 22, 18 83. Application med July 10,1ss2. (No model.)

' tion.

JJhis'invention relates to fences which are composed of fixed posts, longitudinal or horizontal, and diagonal wires, and interwoven pickets carried by the longitudinal wires; and tothis end the invention consists in a novel arrangement of said wires with the posts and pickets, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which a portion of a fence constructed in accordance with our improvement is represented in side elevation.

A A indicate the posts, and B B the longitudinal or horizontal wires with which the pickets O O, which may be provided with barbs,

are interwoven, and which not only pass through staple-like fastenings in the posts, but also in the pickets, or certain of them.

D D are the diagonal wires, arranged to run in reverse directions on opposite sides of the pickets, and secured above and below by the staple-like fastenings in the posts. This arrangement of the diagonalwires causes them to form a sheath for all the longitudinal or horizontal wires B B, which are interwoven with the pickets, and to preventsaid intervening wires being blown down or removed from the posts by cattle inserting their heads through the wires. Furthermore, only the top and bottom lengths of the longitudinal wires B B require to be fastenedto theintermediate posts, A, as shown in the drawing, thus giving said wires a uniform chance to expand and contract from one end of the fence to the other, thereby preventing the wires from breaking, and which commonly occurs when intervening wires are stapled tight at each intermediate junction with the posts. Agaiinby fastening the diagonal wires D D both above and below the several longitudinal wires it takes less wire to make a strong and durable fence, and prevents thefence being raised from the ground by stock or frost. Where said diagonal. wires cross each other theyare or may be secured to an intermediate post by a staple, I), or other suitable fastening. v

A fence constructed as described has not only its posts firmly braced by the reverselyarranged diagonal wires, but the interwoven pickets and longitudinal wires are securely held in place and the pickets prevented from falling to the ground, even it one or more wires should break, the whole formingafence of great strength and safety for the amountot material employed.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a wire fence, the combination, with the posts A A, the horizontal wires B, and the pickets G, secured to and woven between the said horizontal wires, of thediagonal wires D 1), running in reverse directions on opposite sides of the pickets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

M. HARRISON BROWN. CHARLES F. HYDE. Witnesses:

WM. V. ISHAM, F. A. WILKINSON. 

